MDR: Empowering Organizations with Enhanced Security

Managed Detection and Response MDR has emerged as a crucial solution for organizations looking to bolster their security measures. MDR allows businesses to outsource the management of Endpoint Detection and Response EDR products deployed across their network domain. With real-time threat-hunting...

Indicators of compromise (IOCs): how we collect and use them

It would hardly be an exaggeration to say that the phrase "indicators of compromise" or IOCs can be found in every report published on the Securelist. Usually after the phrase there are MD5 hashes1, IP addresses and other technical data that should help information security specialists to counter...

What’s most important for a CISO in API security?

As threats to networks and systems have changed, so have CISOs’ priorities. API security has grown more important with everything as a service and in the cloud. Todays CISOs must ensure they have a plan for protecting APIs. To learn what’s most crucial when protecting APIs, we surveyed CISOs and...

Vulnerability Management Product Comparisons (October 2019)

Here I combined two posts 1.2 from my telegram channel about comparisons of Vulnerability Management products that were recently published in October 2019. One of them was more marketing, published by Forrester, the other was more technical and published by Principled Technologies. I had some...

Harassment scandals, Sheldon Cooper, Black Mirror and blockchain

Lots of good jokes in a popular TV show The Big Bang Theory are related to Sheldon Cooper's bureaucracy in interpersonal relationships: all these "roommate agreement", "relationship agreement", etc. However, because of these endless harassment scandals in media, now it seems like a best practice ...

Google Report Outlines Dependencies in the For-Profit Cybercrime Food Chain

Security specialists need to change the game and shift gears, researchers argue – instead of focusing on protecting their users and systems, they should narrow their sights on trying to shake up cybercrime’s seedy underbelly. At least that’s how Kurt Thomas and Elie Bursztein, researchers at...

Hackers Could Crash Trains by Hacking Rail Traffic System

After reaching heights in cyber attacks by targeting SCADA systems, hackers are looking forward to crash trains. It isn't only assumptions; it could actually happen in real. A new hi-tech railway signalling system being tested in the United Kingdom could potentially be hacked by cyber criminals t...

[Lynis 1.4.2] Security and System Auditing Tool to Harden Linux Systems

Lynis is an auditing tool for Unix/Linux. It performs a security scan and determines the hardening state of the machine. Any detected security issues will be provided in the form of a suggestion or warning. Beside security related information it will also scan for general system information,...

Update : Backtrack Kali Linux 1.0.3 released with built-in accessibility features

BackTrack Linux, a specialized distribution of penetration testing tools, has long been a favorite of security specialists and IT pros. Security professionals have been relying on the BackTrack security distribution for many years to help them perform their assessments. A couple of weeks ago,...

Hacktivism - The Hacker News Magazine - May 2012 Issue

Welcome cyber space readers and internet junkies from around the world. May brings us into an in-depth look at our favorite topic: Hacktivism Our fearless leader, Mohit Kumar, founder of The Hacker News opens the discussion with a look at the meaning of Hackitivism and what it means for society...

U.S. drones affected by Keylogger Virus

U.S. drones affected by Keylogger Virus A keylogger of some sort has infiltrated classified and unclassified computer systems at Creech Air Force Base in Nevada, recording the keystrokes of pilots tasked with operating unmanned drone aircraft in Afghanistan and other international conflict zones...

Stuxnet Code Now Available to Hackers, Posing Major Threat to Infrastructure

According to a report from Sky News, the Stuxnet worm has already been traded on the black market. The report does not specify whether this refers to the source code or binary samples. British security specialists now fear that terrorists could use the worm to attack critical infrastructure. The...